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China’s First Lunar Rover Live-Blogged Its Own Death
China’s First Lunar Rover Live-Blogged Its Own Death m1k3y: persephon-y: The Yutu rover suffered a mysterious “abnormality” over the weekend. And the robot’s microblogged death note may make you cry. “The sun has fallen, and the temperature is dropping so quickly…to tell you all a secret, I don’t feel that sad. I was just in…
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if handwriting had been manual and male, typewriting was fingerprinting: fast, tactile, digital, and female…text was no longer in the grasp of the hand and eye, but guided by contacts and keystrokes, a matter of touch sensitivity. an activity which had once been concentrated on a tight nexus of coordinated organs—hand and eye—and a single…
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explore-blog: To avoid literally working yourself into the ground, as this graph of the correlation between working hours and premature death shows, remember that presence is more rewarding an art than productivity. However, the graph would surely be very different if it accounted for the quality, not just quantity, of working hours. After all, if you’re…